re: #134 Targetpractice

The only person so far in the SPD who didn’t seem to go along with the cover-up was the lead homicide investigator, the guy whose job it was to actually handle the case. He spent 2 weeks trying to bring charges, which was enough time to find witnesses, to test evidence, to do an autopsy, to do all sorts of investigative work on the case.

Quite honestly, I can only conclude that either an effort was made to deliberately let him off or that the SYG law made prosecuting him so impossible that they decided that a cover-up was less messy.

To me, only the former makes sense. A perfunctory investigation that ended up accepting Zimmerman’s story would have had the same effect as getting behind Zimmerman and pushing, and it would have carried far lesser risk. The deciding factor in my mind is the active effort to force the facts and witness accounts to fit Zimmerman’s story, something the law does not at all require. The laws do not fine a municipality simply because some of the evidence collected by its police is contradictory. The lengths the SPD went to cannot be explained by simple self-protection of their own. They only make sense if protecting Zimmerman was a primary goal.